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Don't know what you mean by fully engorged, but a tick does not have eggs until it is puffed up and kinda light gray. Usually that stage is on an animal or pet. Usually pets can bring them inside, but if you walk in areas like some woodlands or the brushy areas on the beach, they can get on your shoes and drop off in your home.

Some recommend not picking the tick off, which will leave the head still in the skin. The skin will gradually get rid of the head if it is left in. Some folks say put some nail polish or nail polish remover. This will make the tick back out with the head on. Some others will take a needle or pin and heat it up and stick it in the tick, which will make it back out. I like the nail polish.

I haven't heard of any disease spread by local ticks. But some have visited somewhere else and the disease incubated after getting back. We are supposed to be in a low risk area and the northeast has the highest risk.

If you don't have a family doctor, there is the county health department with clinics. See link for locations.

Yes, that tick is full of eggs. After sucking blood for about a week or or up to 2 weeks, it will be full of eggs and it will drop off its host and crawl off to die, allowing the eggs to hatch out in its carcass as roaches do.

For what it's worth, we used to find ticks on us all the time. Hunting and camping out and that was before repellent was invented. We just pulled them off with our fingernails. It leaves the head many times, but it never bothered us. In the Boy Scouts, we learned to keep an eye just in case it turned red or swollen, meaning an infection. And chiggers? Wow! But nail polish works great for both.

The inventor of bug repellent should get a Nobel Peace Award.

By the way, I just tried another post and it was moderated. Think I may change my screenname.

No, the ticks suck blood and make eggs over a time period while on the host, up to 2 weeks. Unless removed, they will stay there until it is full of eggs, then drop off. After they drop off, the seed tick will crawl off and die and the eggs hatch wherever the carcass is.

There is no way that the eggs can be transferred to the host, because the eggs are encapsulated in the body of the tick.. But like in a mosquito, there are body fluids transferred to the host while attached and bacteria or virus harmful to the host can be transferred in those body fluids. That is how malaria, West Nile virus or encephalitis is transferred from mosquitoes and Lymes disease from ticks.

Since ticks are related to spiders, repellent and insecticides are effective. Wise to spray repellent on your shoes, socks and legs if going into tick territory. That could be as close as your yard if it borders on woodland or beach brush. And any wild animal like raccoons, deer or opossums can drop off the seed ticks. Also pets or feral cats or dogs if they have not been treated with flea and tick insecticide.

Skin-so-soft is a greasy mess. A Bounce sheet in the hat is a joke as well. Being a golfer, I've tried / used just about everything there is. I have a cabinet in my garage that is FULL of bug spray / repellent and I've found (at least for me) that the best stuff out there is Cutter Advanced. There is another product by Avon called Bug Guard Plus (that is by Skin So Soft but isn't as greasy) that comes in a spray can and is a good product also.
The products that are popular sellers at most golf courses (Cactus Juice and Pest Off Natural) don't work for me for whatever reason. In fact, they seem to ATTRACT them.

Another good tip for removing a Tick is to light a match, blow it out, and stick the burnt end on the Ticks butt. They usually let go.

My parents used to use kerosene when I was growing up which we had for kerosene lamps. (No electricity) Few people use kerosene now unless you use a Kerosun heater or the unscented kind for hurricane lamps.A dab on it and it would back out and squirm round on the floor. I suspect that a volatile solvent like alcohol or paint thinner might be too strong and kill it before it can withdraw its head.

OL- Actually I've always heard that is the WORST thing you can do. Squeezing the tick with something like tweezers will put too much pressure on the tick, squishing it and causing it to spew any possible poison it may have into you. I've always heard that you should twist the tick without squeezing it too tightly. If it leaves the head, just scratch it off with your nail ASAP and clean with alcohol.

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